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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Figaro's Cottage Custom Dollhouse Under Construction

Figaro's Cottage interior is coming together.

I tried out my handmade furniture just to get a sense of the space. The walls are wainscoting on the bottom. This is actually ridged cardboard paper from the scrapbook section at Hobby Lobby. It's already white, but also comes unpainted. I aged it with a brown stamp ink pad. You can use your finger or a brush to smear it on.

Above that is a wood railing and a white paper lattice boarder. This paper boarder was cut out with a fancy paper punch. Then the top of the wall is a coat of plaster(actually spackling from the hardware store). It's painted with robin egg blue latex paint.

The fireplace mantel will have a little fire in it. I bought the light kit here: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/fire-led.html . I took the 3 volt battery and 3mm lights. But I think the 1.8mm lights would have worked just as well. Then I cut a twig from my garden into little logs and built a pyramid shape around the light bulbs to hide them. I added a couple different types of moss to make it cute.

Next the window molding was glued on. For this project I'm using windows that open which I bought. They will go in place when I finish the exterior.

The dollhouse floor is Popsicle/craft sticks painted with white acrylic paint which I watered down a bit for an uneven application.

Upstairs, I have done my accent wall. I used a printed wallpaper I collected from the internet.

Below that I put another piece of wainscoting. The other roof walls will be the same robin egg blue as downstairs.
Thanks for coming over!
hugs♥

31 comments:

The border is super cute. I love all your tips for inexpensive decorating. I love to build dollhouse miniature furniture. I usually look at full scale pieces I like & then just scale it to 1"-12" scale.

Hi Caroline, it is good to see that you are busy again. How is your leg, is it better? I hope so.I try to make my own miniature furniture too, it is so nice to make the models that you want for your dollhouse :D!Have a nice day! Hugs, Ilona

Oh, look at that!! Gorgeous panelling, and the duck egg is a wonderful colour on the "plaster" walls. More of your beautiful shabby floor boards, and the finish on the fireplace is fabulous. Lovely!!Alison xx

Hi Caroline,Wow, love how this is coming out........all your furniture looks perfect in there, and love how you did the logs and all in the fireplace, and the wainscotting with the border,very nice. I love robins egg blue, one of my fav colors.Gonna be another treasure........that is for sure.

So how are you coming along?? Are you up and offthe crutches yet?? Oh I sure hope so.......know thishas been a long haul for you hon. Still praying for youfor a complete recovery just in case.Blessings, Nellie

Caroline, your new cottage will be another masterpiece of yours. I love your handmade furniture, fireplace is my favorite. Thank you for sharing the link for the fire. I definitely will use it for m cottage too. Mini hugs, Natalia

Caroline, every little house you do just seems to get prettier and more unique than the last one. I love that you are doing more furniture with them too. Can hardly wait to see what it's like when it's done!

I love the floor, it really fits with the furniture..it's so warm and cozy all I need is a good book and fire! Hope you are feeling better, my friend at work says Ice helps but only for 20 min at a time. Take care of you!

I love the wallpaper you choose and the decorated borders. I'm also happy that you are making now your furniture....it would have been a pitty not to have these type of things made by you....if they come up like the cottages, they can only be wonderful!!!